Thanks Cathy and sorry for the late response (project jumpin').

I used a technque from your great book "The vfp Report Writer, Pushing it to the Limits..." to maintain a fixed location: replicate(chr(13)...) as opposed to the dummy lines I was using.

One problem remains. DetailLine1 will not overflow to the next page when I use the "start detail set on new page when less than" property. For example, if I set that property to 4.00", it will still fill the whole page before it overflows to the next page! Note, the "start detail set on new page when less than" property DOES work when applied to DetailLine2!

Another question: How do you completely suppress page overflow. I can keep all report objects from printing when the page overflows, but how do you suppress the blank page from printing?

thanks, Vince